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‘A Fairly Average “White Middle‐Class” Species of Lesbian’: Lorna Gulston, Ireland and the Early Anglophone Lesbian Press, 1965–1980

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the published writings of Lorna Gulston (c. 1932–2023), a hitherto unknown Northern Irish civil servant who wrote many articles for the earliest British lesbian magazines such as Arena Three, Sappho and Sequel. In doing so, the article asks: How did Gulston find her way onto the pages of these pioneering magazines?
Maurice J. Casey
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John the Baptist, social identity and imperial space in Luke 3:1–22

Verbum et Ecclesia
This article sought to understand the presentation of social identities and spatiality in Luke 3:1–22. Here, John the Baptist preaches a sermon of repentance, warning his readers not to rely on physical descent from Abraham as their only identity marker.
David R. van Groeningen
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Challenging Biblical Fundamentalism by Seeking the Influence of the Synagogue in the Formation of the Synoptic Gospels

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2009
Taking cues from Michael Goulder s book Midrash and Lection in Matthew the author argues a case for taking the context of the synagogue seriously as the place were the story about Jesus was recalled and passed on for a minimum of forty years.
J.S. Spong
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The Timely Rise of a Teenage Reformer: Youth Revolt, Feminism and the Struggle for a ‘New Sexual Morality’ at the Dawn of the Spanish Second Republic

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The contributions of propagandist and writer Hildegart (1914–1933) to Spanish cultural life are overshadowed by accounts of her unusual upbringing and violent death. This article examines the conditions that enabled the teenager to become a prominent voice for feminism and sexual reform on the eve of Spain's Second Republic (1931–1939).
Micaela Pattison
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‘Sinister Indian‐like Half‐circle’: Tennis, Orientalism and the White Racial Frame in the Twentieth‐Century British Sporting Press

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining sport alongside race, media and imperial power opens a rich field for understanding how macro‐level ideologies are shaped and circulated through everyday cultural forms. In twentieth‐century Britain, mass media framed and distributed narratives that rendered the empire's political realities intelligible to a broad public.
SOUVIK NAHA
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Jesus en demoonuitdrywing: ’n ondersoek na Jesus se hantering van demone volgens die Evangelies

In die Skriflig, 2006
Jesus and exorcism: an investigation of Jesus’ dealing with demons according to the Gospels In view of present-day reports of demon-possession and often disputable practices of exorcism, a study is made of these phenomena in the Gospels. According to
F. P. Viljoen
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Working‐Class Muscles? Co‐Operative Gyms in Interwar Britain

History, EarlyView.
Abstract The Health & Strength League's network of co‐operative gymnasiums constituted one of interwar Britain's most significant yet overlooked physical culture institutions, affiliating over 800 gyms across Britain and Ireland by 1939. Drawing on Health & Strength magazine's editorial content and reader contributions, this article argues that these ...
CONOR HEFFERNAN
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Recepcja postaci Jana Chrzciciela w ewangeliach pseudoepigraficznych

Analecta Cracoviensia, 2011
The pseudepigraphic Gospels are relatively strong interested in the person of John the Baptist. Although they are based on the canonical traditions of the Baptist, were these of them, in some cases very strongly, reinterpreted.
Dominik Nowak
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A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
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Narratologiese ondersoek en eksegese van die boodskap van die evangelies

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 1986
Narratological investigation and exegesis of the message of the gospels This paper argues that the narrative structure of the gospels facilitates the communication of the Biblical message and that exegesis of this message therefore presupposes an ...
I. Gräbe
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